Selected images taken from paper publications, starting at top left: Various sample books distributed by the Japan Paper Co., linking of watermarks on WZMA, two-tone watermarks
The 35th Biennial IPH Congress of the International Association of Paper Historian successfully took place in Washington, D.C., June 7–11, 2021. This first IPH congress in the United States of America since the one in Boston in 1982 was generously hosted by the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the National Archives and Records Administration. The congress, entitled Investigating American Collections on Paper, focused on paper used as the primary material for objects in American museums, libraries, archives and private collections. The main themes were: ‘Papermaking in the Americas from pre-colonial times to the present,’ ‘Studies of papers, regardless of place of making, used by printers, artists, and literary or historical American figures,’ ‘The international paper trade, especially commerce between European and Asian papermaking centers and the Western Hemisphere’ and ‘New technologies for recording watermarks and other physical characteristics of paper, as well as the evolving use of databases for managing and sharing watermark images and information.’
The IPH Congress Book is a compilation of many of the research papers that were presented during the congress. Abstracts for each paper are written in English, French, German, and Spanish.
IPH Congress Book, Vol. 23, 2021 [PDF: 90737 KB, 370 pp.]
Acknowledgements
The organizing committee would like to express gratitude and appreciation for the online version of the Congress Book to the Harper-Inglis Memorial Fund for Preservation and the generous support of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for helping to support the International Association of Paper Historians 35th Biennial Congress that took place online in 2021. The committee is also grateful for the generous assistance of language specialists and the conservation staff of the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Archives and Records Administration, who together with a number of IPH members volunteered their time to translate texts and abstracts from and/or into Spanish, Italian, English, German, and French.
